Every new parent knows those initial weeks of waking every two hours with your newborn. You brace yourself, thinking it’s temporary, clinging to the hope that those sleep windows will gradually stretch. But when my one-year-old started reverting back to waking every two hours, I got desperate.

Motherhood is no walk in the park. “Moming” can feel less like a labor of love and more like an unappreciated grine. The struggle is real, especially for those perfectionists among us, grappling with the unattainable quest for perfection in the current season of life.